1. As much investigation that occurs when you buy a firearm....you'd think an equal amount of investigation would occur when you register to vote. But you can't find a single thing to suggest such.
2. Just stand and admit it....the Trump VP choice? His mother was a junkie....period, no exception. She was a crappy parent, and did everything possible to screw up his life. Vance ended up with Grandma, who did everything possible to reverse the damage done. There's some Trump morale here....being played out in front of the nation.
3. If you were ever appointed 'Czar' of something....by any President....you got paid to mostly talk in front of the camera, but produce zero results.
4. We are today a nation of dependency...whether by fate, design or accident. You might want to ponder about that for a while.
5. If you'd said back in the 1980s....that we'd have a female candidate who'd 'whored-up' for twenty years of her life....running for President....people would have laughed you out of the room.
6. If you are a company producing 'fake' meat....I'm not giving you good odds of financially surviving. You might want a plan 'B'. It's like the people who made fake-Coke....where are they today?
7. If I were a white plain American guy with Democratic Party views....wanting to get voted up for city-council, mayor, state-house, or the US Senate....I'd probably be working on classifying myself as either disabled, trans, gay, or half-black/Hispanic.
8. When some group says you need to be net-zero....the last thing on their mind is a cheaper energy bill.
9. If you stood up and said lets fly from Huntsville, Ala to Vegas....I'd tell you there's too much risk of flight issues, and lets just drive there.
10. In the last 24 hours....watching various newscasts.....I keep hearing the term 'root-causes' (probably up around sixty times now). Just odd....so many networks/podcasts, and they utter the term 'root-cause' in the first minute to prepare you for their 'message'.
11. If you've spent five minutes talking and I interpret your 'message' as something written by a nine-year-old kid.....you've got a serious problem.
12. If you own a dozen rental properties, and have legal actions going on to kick out five of these people.....are you that confident that once you have an empty house....that you will have a steady person to rent it? I'll just offer the opinion....we are at the highest rate of risk/trust....in fifty years.
13. We are reaching a point where 'half-wit' status (H-W) will like an identifying symbol of who you are. Some people will be proud of the H-W.
14. I think we need to invent the term 'Working-Class-Lite'....to identify people marginally making enough, and likely living in dad's house, or bunking-up with three buddies.
15. If Darwin sailed off today (2024) and came back to report evolution....half of society would immediately accept his Twitter announcement, and the other half would dump all over him that he was confused and full of BS. He'd likely exit the science business and retire off to some cattle-ranch in Wyoming.
16. Number one problem in America today? People aspiring to surround themselves with like-minded people....who distribute BS you prefer....accepting no other reality.
17. Maybe it's ok to hire-up dementia folks to manage banks or run fire-departments. Maybe it's been that way for the past forty years, and it would explain why the nation is so screwed-up.
18. If you asked people in 1985 to explain 'evil'.....it probably wouldn't match up to what people in 2024 would say.
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ReplyDeleteThe first time I heard 'root-cause' was three or four years ago.
kamala "stop calling me round-heels" h. said it.
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Instantly, I wondered about the difference between 'root-cause' and regular cause.
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I also wondered about 'the significance of the passage of time [nodding to elicit reciprocal nods]'
I seem to wonder a lot.
I note several instances of the use of „We“, in reference to being Ami. I find that interesting considering your wife and were you live. That said, if an easy choice (no family limitations) to live either place, which would it be? I’m assuming your wife is driving the choice to stay in Germany.
ReplyDeleteChoice of living? I could live anyplace...literally. If you said Iceland was 'it'...I'd draw up the plan and move. If you said the Ozarks....I'd draw the plan and move.
ReplyDeleteBut in this process...I'd ask questions. I really don't care for a HOT location. I don't want severe winters. I'm a bit anti-crime and anti-risk. Moving to Florida is out because of the hurricane stress. California is out because of the whacky nature of the state. Half the nation has crime numbers that worry me.
With the EU visa...I can live anywhere in Europe (except the UK). If you were selling me on one more move...other than Greece or Czech...I can't think of any location with better benefits (at least presently) than Germany.
That said...cost-of-living increases yearly. Germany isn't the same as it was in 1984. Way more drug activity than 20 years ago. Every year, another dozen-odd rules put upon one in living in Germany. Even in my small village, I now have to think and be vigilant over potential crime/robbery.
I'll end this with the comment...almost monthly, the wife brings up the idea of relocating one more time, but this conversation never goes anywhere. Sometimes, it includes just another location of Germany (other than Wiesbaden). Sometimes, it includes Europe itself. But there is no motivation to do anything.